About this role
Job description:
Join our team as a Wellbeing Adviser to positively impact students' lives through promoting healthy university engagement.
Working within Faculties and reporting into the central Mental Health Development Officers, within Mental Health Counselling, Therapies and Wellbeing Service, you will provide a key link between faculties and central Student Health, Wellbeing and Support Services.
As a Wellbeing Adviser, you will:
Proactively identify students or groups of students who may be struggling with university life and studies. Offer timely support to ensure students with wellbeing needs gain access to the most appropriate support pathways. Refer students to wider student support services where appropriate, enabling students to achieve their academic potential. Provide appointments and coordinate wellbeing initiatives and activities. Offer input to staff on wellbeing matters and contribute to embedding wellbeing into teaching. Support mental health promotion events and activities to proactively support student wellbeing.
To be successful in this role, you will have significant experience in mental health or wellbeing work. With excellent interpersonal skills, including empathy and pragmatism you will maintain boundaries and confidentiality and act with discretion. A good knowledge of student wellbeing issues and how these may affect students is key.
You will have experience in dealing with risk and understanding when to raise risk concerns and the ability to work collaboratively and cooperatively with colleagues across faculties and central teams.